International feature film screenings for the 2027 Oscars Movies Counter

Markus Schleinzer’s black-and-white drama rose The film won star Sandra Höller a Silver Bear for Leading Performance after its world premiere at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. Set in 17th-century Germany, she plays a mysterious soldier who shows up in an isolated Protestant village amid the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War and declares himself heir to a long-abandoned farm, eventually winning the villagers’ acceptance — even if it’s all based on lies. Mubi has North American rights to the pic, which Deadline critic Damon Wise called a “magnificent piece of work.” Holler was previously nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Actress Anatomy of a fall. Read Deadline’s story here.

The first feature of Gala del Sol Rain on BabylonWhich she wrote, directed and produced, has its world premiere in the next section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The picture reimagines Dante’s Inferno with an uncanny twist, set in a mythical and surreal Maya city – an ancient future version of Cali, Colombia. The center of the action is Son of Babel, an iconic dive bar that serves as a purgatory for lost souls and is headed by La Flaca (Sarai Rebolledo), the city’s grim reaper. De Sol, who attended film school at Chapman University in Orange County, California, was previously a finalist for the Student Academy Awards in 2018 for her graduate short film. Transit passengers. Colombia has been nominated once in the Oscar category, in 2015 for Ciro Guerra Embrace the snake.

Documentary film by director Pippa Ljubogaki If the pigeon turns into goldwhich had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, was filmed over the course of five years and follows Ljubugaki’s brother and two cousins ​​as their addiction begins to destroy their relationships and homes. The Czech Film and Television Academy made the selection, saying of the picture: “Using DIY aesthetics, the director combines diary shots, stylized memories and vivid photographs, as well as graphic collages, and without any emotion tries to understand the reasons for her downfall and also the impact it has on the whole family.” The country has won the Oscars category three times, most recently in 1996 with Jan Sverac’s film. He eatsand last made it to the shortlist in 2024 with director Jiri Madel’s Prague Spring collection Waves. Read Deadline’s story here.

Play by Andres Farias melodrama It stars Mercedes Morales and Jamie Jean-Louis (Heroes) and focuses on Sonia, a widow forced to downsize and deal with grief after her husband’s death and who meets and falls in love with Haitian construction worker and poet Aimee. The relationship awakens Sonia’s emotions but also reveals tensions between the Dominican and Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic. The pic premiered in the United States at the Miami Film Festival and was selected for the Academy Awards by the Dominican Republic Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The country has not yet reached the nomination stage; I submitted baby For last year’s race.

twoa drama by Plerta Basholi, is set in Pristina in the late 1990s and focuses on 13-year-old Dua (Penja Matoshi) as she struggles to conform to expectations of femininity amid the specter of war and rising ethnic tensions in the country. The picture had its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, and is one of two pictures from Kosovo now eligible for an Oscar in this category, following Visar Morena. Shame and money It won a qualifying award earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Viestors Kairich Olyaa co-production of Latvia, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania, is based on the life of famous Latvian and Soviet Olympic basketball gold medalist Ojana Semjonova, who stands 7 feet tall and played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, winning the USSR gold medal in 1976 and 1980. Carles Arnold Avott, a male, plays the role in the picture that focuses on Olea’s early life as a quirky, fast-growing country farm girl uncomfortable in her own skin before the basketball world discovers her. The film, which Avut also co-wrote, had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The selection follows the motion picture in Latvia flow It was nominated for the 2024 Academy Award for Best International Feature and won the Animation Statue Award that year.

Written and directed by Andrius Blasevius How to divorce during warIt is his third feature film that won the Best Director Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The family drama revolves around Maria (Elena Jakstaiti), an advertising agency executive who chooses the worst possible time to tell her husband, Vitas (Marius Ripsis), a film director in search of his own, that she wants a divorce: the day before Russia invades Ukraine. Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have North American rights and released the film on August 21 in New York, and August 28 in Los Angeles as part of the film’s nationwide rollout.

Martin Jonda flood (Flood(, his first feature film, is set in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and is based on true events. The film revolves around Mara (Sarah Cherepakova), who dreams of leaving her village for the city where she can study to become a pilot, but her widowed father forbids this and wants her to stay and work on the family farm. Intergenerational conflict and political strife arise when the village faces the threat of annihilation due to the construction of the Starina reservoir, which in fact led to the evacuation of many rural villages. The photo was selected by the Academy Slovak Film and Television Awards No Slovak film made it to the Oscars shortlist, although the former Czechoslovakia won twice within three years: The shop is on the main street In 1965 and Trains that are closely monitored In 1967.

Documentary film by Nicholas Vadimov Who is still alive? (Who still lives), which had its world premiere in the Venice Days section of the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Explores the loss of nine Palestinian refugees of their homeland against the backdrop of the Gaza War. The interviews were filmed in South Africa, one of the few countries where Palestinians from the Gaza Strip can enter without a visa. This documentary, which won Best Documentary at Hot Docs, is Wadimoff’s third project to address the Palestinian issue after 2010. He is still alive in Gaza And 2018 Apollo Gaza. Watermelon Pictures is the distributor of the picture, which was nominated for an Oscar last year Hind Rajab’s voiceThe film is scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States in the fall. Read Deadline’s story here.

A blurry taleThe film, directed by Chen Yu-hsun, won four Golden Horse Awards, including best feature film, and was selected to represent Taiwan among seven finalists “for its lively characters, fluid storytelling grounded in the perspectives of ordinary people, and its ability to showcase Taiwanese culture and universal values,” Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture said. Set in 1954 during the White Terror era of government repression in the country, the film revolves around 15-year-old Yu (Caitlin Fang), who travels to Taipei to retrieve the body of her executed brother. She escapes being sold by traffickers with the help of a demobilized soldier (Will Orr), and they join forces to bring her brother home. Taiwan was nominated for three films in the World Film category, all directed by Ang Lee: Wedding feast (1993), Eat drink man woman (1994) and 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonThe latter won an Oscar.

Tonk Davot Like a tree without limbs The film revolves around retired civil engineer Rafiq, who gives money to a Syrian caregiver so that she can flee to Europe with her two young sons; Instead, she leaves the children with him and disappears. All of this happens amidst his family’s problems as they gather for the Eid al-Adha holiday. The pic stars Ali Eben, Fayyaz Duman, and Celine Courtaran. Türkiye has been shortlisted for international feature films once before, in 2007 for Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Three monkeysWhich also won the Ceylon Award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.